SUM OF THREE CUBES
Timothy Y. Chow
tchow at math.princeton.edu
Tue Oct 13 09:57:34 EDT 2020
Harvey Friedman wrote:
> QUESTION: Is the set of all sums of three cubes of integers recursive?
> It is obviously recursively enumerable.
>
> This seems to be the most attractive set of integers for which it is not
> known whether it is recursive. Any competitors?
Oh, here's another candidate that I forgot to mention in my previous
message: the set of all integers that appear exactly 6 times in Pascal's
triangle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singmaster%27s_conjecture
The set is known to be infinite, but I don't think that it is even known
to be recursively enumerable.
Tim
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